Last month Wendy Cleland-Hamnett in Falls Church, Va, retired last month (2017) as the top official overseeing pesticides and toxic chemicals as the E.P.A. “I had become irrelevant,” she said about changes there under the Trump administration.

The assault on science at the Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump Administration is unprecedented. Experienced academic scientists have been removed from advisory boards and replaced with industry shills. Key regulations on proven carcinogens and mutagens like trichloroethylene have been abandoned without explanation. Trump's “Red Teams” are being set up to challenge the scientific consensus in peer-reviewed journals. Finally, the free speech of EPA scientists is being censored by Trump’s political appointees – which is exactly what happened this week (Oct 24, 2017) when EPA scientists were ordered to cancel their talks on climate change at a scientific conference.

Last week, EPA scientists were scheduled to participate in a conference on the environmental health of Narragansett Bay, the largest estuary in New England and key to the region’s fishing and tourism industries. The EPA scientists were to deliver keynote presentations on current and prospective environmental damage to the bay from climate change. However, at the last minute, the EPA announced without explanation that the three scientists scheduled to appear at the conference would not attend. The motivation was clear – to silence the scientists working on and speaking publicly about climate change. There has not been such a concerted and well-funded effort at distorting and silencing scientific research since Congress “debated” the link between smoking cigarettes and cancer.
--- Rep. Schiff puts end to question of Trump Russia collusion as Rachel Maddow shares video of Congressman Adam Schiff listing the times that Russia reached out to help the Donald Trump campaign.

"Resist Trump installing an IRS acting commissioner who could interfere with audits and investigations into Trump and his associates' potential tax fraud and money laundering."] IRS Commissioner John Koskinen’s term ends in November. But instead of nominating someone who would face Senate confirmation, Trump could simply name a trusted crony as a “temporary” appointment who would wield the exact same power.2 The Senate must pressure Trump to not install a puppet IRS commissioner without senators’ advice and consent. We can win this fight if all the members of the Senate Democratic caucus and key Republican senators who are concerned about the integrity of the Russia investigation hold firm. Our activism is crucial, and it works. Together we have stopped Trumpcare three times, and now we must demonstrate that the public is paying attention and will not tolerate Trump picking an IRS chief while he or his associates are under investigation for wrongdoing, potentially including tax fraud and money laundering.

Toni G. Atkins (D) District 39 call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 to be connected with the office of one your senators. When someone answers, say this: "Hi, my name is ___ and I’m calling from ___. I strongly urge you to oppose the nomination of Sam Clovis – a racist and a climate change denier with no background in food or agriculture. - Clovis - Trump plan re Iran nuclear dal. In a statement sent to HuffPost exclusively by Meryl Streep’s longtime publicist Leslee Dart, Streep says she did not know that Weinstein― with whom she has collaborated for years on films like “August: Osage County” and “The Iron Lady” and once referred to as a “God”― was engaging in “inappropriate, coercive acts” and that he had paid financial settlements to at least eight women after they accused him of harassment and assault. After spending a weekend screaming at NFL and NBA athletes over Twitter, Donald Trump has embarrassed our country yet AGAIN. Stop Trump and Pruitt from undoing the Clean Power Plan! And David Letterman believes we should BOOT Trump out of office.

The Senate must pressure Trump to not install a puppet IRS commissioner without senators’ advice and consent. We can win this fight if all the members of the Senate Democratic caucus and key Republican senators who are concerned about the integrity of the Russia investigation hold firm. Our activism is crucial, and it works. Together we have stopped Trumpcare three times, and now we must demonstrate that the public is paying attention and will not tolerate Trump picking an IRS chief while he or his associates are under investigation for wrongdoing, potentially including tax fraud and money laundering.

Trump has already installed more than 1000 political appointments to head up federal agencies – all without Senate approval !! The administration has been able to place industry insiders and shadowy Trump loyalists in charge of much of the government’s day-to-day operations. Trump could do the same thing with the IRS, unless the Senate insists that he play by the rules.3

Even before the 2016 election, the IRS joined the FBI in investigating former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on suspicion of money laundering and tax fraud.4 In recent weeks, the IRS has coordinated with special counsel Mueller on his investigation of Manafort and other Trump associates, including former White House national security adviser, Michael Flynn.5 As Mueller’s investigation has gotten closer to Trump’s finances, Trump has accused the special counsel of crossing a line, prompting many to speculate that Mueller's firing is imminent.6

The IRS' cooperation is crucial for federal prosecutors in investigating tax crimes, and Trump has made it clear he will go to great lengths to hinder Mueller’s investigation – possibly even installing someone loyal to him to oversee the IRS. The Senate must intercede now – we need to keep reminding Democrats to use their power to keep Trump from being able to advance his dangerous agenda on any front, especially when it comes to the agency investigating his ties to Russia.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt just announced that he is repealing President Obama’s signature plan to stop climate change.
It’s the biggest environmental rollback we’ve seen since Trump withdrew
from the Paris Accord. Now, President Obama’s plan to decrease carbon emissions will be GONE. Big business polluters will be able to DESTROY our planet. And it’s all because Scott Pruitt,
Donald Trump, and Republicans want to score political points with big business polluters -- and undo President Obama’s legacy. It’s indefensible. It’s life-threatening. And it will devastate our environment. Pruitt will roll back this rule October 10, 2017.

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*Computer scams? *not UCI James Smith of UC but 1 844 730 8362 with "Windows" : scammer says he worked for me six months earlier for $198 also for a new Windows $198, adding "oh, we also have a Mac Department"

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Medical Scams

Six Places Never to Use a Credit Card Sid Kirchheimer

Hotel check-in Scam

This is one of the smartest scams I have heard about. You
arrive at your hotel and check in at the front desk. Typically when
checking in, you give the front desk your credit card (for any charges
to your room) and they don't retain the card.
You go to your room and settle in. All is good.
The hotel receives a call and the caller asks for (as an example) room
620 - which happens to be your room.
The phone rings in your room. You answer and the person on the other end
says the following: 'This is the front desk. When checking in, we came
across a problem with your charge card information. Please re-read me
your credit card numbers and verify the last 3 digits numbers at the
reverse side of your charge card.'
Not thinking anything wrong, since the call seems to come from the front
desk you oblige. But actually, it is a scam by someone calling from
outside the hotel. They have asked for a random room number, then ask you for your credit card and address information. They sound so professional, that you think you are talking to the front desk.If you ever encounter this scenario on your travels, tell the caller that you will be down to the front desk to clear up any problems. Then,
go to the front desk or call directly and ask if there was a problem. If
there was none, inform the manager of the hotel that someone tried to
scam you of your credit card information, acting like a front desk
employee.

Reverse phone call scam

"856 917 0050" = Verizon

Facebook scams

Leigh Comstock Ok to all my friends and family....I did not send you an email at 1:02am this morning about HCG diet drops. I assure you that I was in bed sleeping. I don't know how it happened, but they got a hold of my email account and sent it to everyone that I have ever communicated with via my yahoo email. June 27 2012

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Congress is set to double the cost of student loans from 3.4% to 6.8% --while offering huge corporate banks the low rate of 0.75%. May 10, 2013. How's that for the fat cats?

"California is the 4th-largest oil-producing state, but it is the ONLY state that does NOT tax Big Oil. We could raise $2 billion per year to begin repairing the damage of previous cuts to public education, but only if Democrats in the Legislature use their new super-majority power to pass it. Sarah Palin signed Alaska's oil severance tax of 25%! Texas charges 7.5%.(1) Why doesn't California make Big Oil pay for the privilege of profiting off our natural resources? State Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) has proposed Senate Bill 241, which would tax oil extraction at a modest 9.9%. Public higher education would receive 93% of revenues, and 7% would go to the Department of Parks and Recreation." Courage Campaign May 4 2012.

"The law limiting overall contributions was enacted in 1974 and expanded in 2002 to prevent donors from writing million-dollar checks to candidates, which the Supreme Court has ruled could contribute to the corruption or at least the appearance of corruption of public officials." Breaking that law with oversight by the FEC, "The Huffington Post identified 49 individuals who donated more than $150,000 in the last election cycle, far in excess of the biennial contribution limits. Of the 49 donors, 48 exceeded the PAC and party limit and 32 exceeded the candidate limit." Huffpost May 3 2013.

RSN Dec 12 2012: Lawrence Tribe: "It badly distorts the meaning of everything I have written on the subject to treat me as remotely hostile to the comprehensive national regulation of firearms and ammunition possession, transfer, and use; and it even distorts my meaning to regard my views as similar to those that the Roberts Court has expressed on the subject, although I hasten to add that even this Court's unfortunate views leave very substantial room for close regulation and even prohibition of entire categories of dangerous firearms and the ammunition that makes them lethal. The fact that many of my fellow gun control proponents were disappointed by the nuanced character of what I wrote in 2000 shouldn't be allowed to distract from my continuing conclusion that the Constitution permits, and that sane public policy demands, vastly stricter firearms regulation than exists in the United States today.""

12Nov'12 Search for: Naomi Klein Author and activist | Shameless Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein, The Nation. Klein writes: As for Hurricane Sandy "This catastrophe very likely created by climate change -- a crisis born of the colossal regulatory failure to prevent corporations from treating the atmosphere as their open sewer-is just one more opportunity for more deregulation."

9 Nov'12 For the first time ever, 1/3rd of our nation's 20-29 year olds have completed a Batchelor's degree.

6 Nov'12 Election: Through the process of an honest democratic election we regained a united country and have the opportunity to lift ours and the world economy out of the mini-depression that we got ourselves into through transgressions of Bankers and Wall Street and the inability to cooperate in the aftermath of the financial collapse.

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